Optimized Boinc - SSE, SSE2...

Akos Fekete
Akos Fekete
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RE: I think MONITOR and

Message 79600 in response to message 79599

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I think MONITOR and MWAIT are part of SSE2, but not supported by AMD.


They are not SSE instructions and AMD K10 processors support them.
(MONITOR and MWAIT were introduced with SSE3 together.)

ML1
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OK, so the AMD SSE2 appears

OK, so the AMD SSE2 appears to be perfectly good after all.

To use with ICC, just nobble (circumvent) ICC's "AuthenticAMD" test and gain the full optimisations for AMD (and/or other non-Intel?) CPUs...

Thanks as ever to Akos for some very in-depth knowledge!

Happy crunchin',
Martin

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